小米AIoT路由器 AX3600

[newsera]

Is it worth the effort to root the router and install openwrt especially with the limitation mentioned below? The only reason why I am looking at OpenWRT is so that I can use modern VPN protocols on the router since the default firmware only supports L2TP and PPTP

I would say NO although you can rollback easily from OpenWRT to Stock Firmware.

I had very poor experience with the roaming and I always felt Stock Firmware was way better on this regards. At the end of the day, if you can customize the Stock Firmware config files (again this is OpenWRT under the hood but probably older version), you can get the desired balance.

 

[Lastexile]

Checking if anyone has used OpenWRT 23.0.5 for AX3600? And if it's worth to switch to OpenWRT?

 

[newsera]

I flashed Stock modified (with all those call-home services stripped) from 4pda and have been liking it so far. I still use them as APs only

 

[i1magic]

Anybody flashed Global ROM for AX3600? Better? What is the pros and cons?

This Global ROM can use?
https://miuirom.org/miwifi/xiaomi-a...Fw6BGLv3LmYDsrhSxAvEimg8gkz2Yq-V6jaSGETJ_4jHU

 

[newsera]

You can use but there is a lot of phone home back to mothership! If you need the clean ROM, let me know. I can share it with you

 

[i1magic]

You can use but there is a lot of phone home back to mothership! If you need the clean ROM, let me know. I can share it with you

What do you mean by that? How is the current China ROM compared to the Global ROM?

 

[i1magic]

You can use but there is a lot of phone home back to mothership! If you need the clean ROM, let me know. I can share it with you

Can advise on this?

 

[xiaofan]

Checking if anyone has used OpenWRT 23.0.5 for AX3600? And if it's worth to switch to OpenWRT?

You can refer to this post by GlassDoor:
https://forums.hardwarezone.com.sg/threads/openwrt-router-firmware.5967482/page-24#post-151972417.

He is using a custom build of OpenWRT which uses Qualcomm NSS NPU offload features to have better performance than stock OpenWRT 23.05.

Links provided by GlassDoor:
https://forum.openwrt.org/t/qualcommax-nss-build/148529
https://github.com/JuliusBairaktaris/Qualcommax_NSS_Builder

WIth this build, it is probably not really necessary to deal with stock firmware which does not provide the nice features offered by OpenWRT.

Xiaomi HW spec for routers like Xiaomi AX3600 and Xiaomi AX9000 are top notch. Just the firmware features are rather plain. Luckily both are supported by OpenWRT.

Newer flagship Xiaomi BE10000 has top notch HW spec as well (IPQ9574 CPU, 2GB RAM, dual 10G ports). Not sure when it will be supported by OpenWRT though.

 

[newsera]

Link to Russian Firmware for those who are interested:
Russian Firmware

 

[GlassDoor]

my mama used to say never take candies from stranger.
in the internet age = never install firmware from unknown sources